Landlords buy more but don't optimize what they own.

However, what I plan to do is to optimize cashflowing REI to speed up early retirement plan by 20-30 yrs.  

It becomes like breathing air you just know how to do it optimally without thinking about it.I have seen syndicators take on loan assumptions with marginal terms and high fees or they used floating debt just to massage the numbers so they could hit a certain projected pref (hopefully) to the investors to entice investment of capital.

The key to individual  investors here, in my opinion, is to turn around smaller properties where you optimize income, value, and tenant class.

In fact, do you know why they "randomly " remove them from the menu?!?

I am trying to sign up for the tax advantage program where they review last 2 years of tax returns and optimize. 

Besides, there're often ways to optimize your tax returns and minimize your taxes. 

Id love to get a few more properties under my belt before the next recession so that I have my processes optimized and ready to roll when the deals come available.  

One could also be remote, it is just not as optimal normally we can understand.

If your property is located optimally (ie; near a lift, near the base), stands out positively compared to the comps (ie; tastefully furnished, good amenities, etc) achieving ~20+ days/month is completely doable.